{"id":2282,"date":"2021-09-09T23:16:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T23:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2021-09-09T23:16:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T23:16:11","slug":"profession-protection-referees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/profession-protection-referees\/","title":{"rendered":"Profession Protection: Referees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association\u00a0says that \u00a0harassment of umpires and referees was so rampant it had become impossible to attract enough of them to support their games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? Wisconsin is considering legislation to make harassing an umpire or referee a misdemeanor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? MI, NY and OH are also considering protecting referees and umpires. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitol.hawaii.gov\/Archives\/measure_indiv_Archives.aspx?billtype=SB&amp;billnumber=2612&amp;year=2020\">HI SB 2612 (2021 | HI)<\/a> considered making harassing a sports official a felony. 20 states already have laws providing special criminal penalties for attacks\u2014including verbal ones\u2014against referees.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/public-safety\/2021\/08\/lawmakers-call-foul-referee-abuse\/184901\/\">Route Fifty | Lawmakers Call Foul on Referee Abuse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association\u00a0says that \u00a0harassment of umpires and referees was so rampant it had become impossible to attract enough of them to support their games. Why is this important? Wisconsin is considering legislation to make harassing an umpire or referee a misdemeanor. How will this be important? MI, NY and OH are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}